Mission 

Professor Cosimo Palagiano, Helen Kerfoot, Peter Jordan, Georg Gartner and others decided to establish a Commission of Toponymy, which would study the Geographical names from the point of view both of geography and cartography.

Some topics  in which the Commission is involved:

• Functions of place names on maps
• Rendering of place names on maps
• Names placement on maps
• Elaborating principles for creating new place names
• Place names as expression of time – or space-related identity
• Place name/feature relations
• Motives for place naming and administration (including feminine place names)
• Place names and transportation
• Place names in the cyber world
• Social dimensions of place names

other related topics:

• Uses of toponyms for school education
• Unofficial, aboriginal, vernacular, historical toponyms;
• Microtoponyms
• Dual or bilingual toponyms, exonyms.